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VILLAGERS CHEER TROOP TRAINS

... B.E.F. had been evacuated from Dunkirk, states the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post correspondent. Gallant French soldiers, side by side with the British. fought like cats against the Nazis. Little remains of Dunkirk itself. which I was subjected to ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 617 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Communication, Cut

... which ran first Amiens and afterwards through Abbeville, and it sheared 11s way the coast to Boulogne and Calais, almost Dunkirk. Behind this armoured and meclianiied onslaught number German divisions lorries, and behind again there plodded, comparatively ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 314 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

democracy fell away there. Beaten but unconquered, shining splendour she faced the enemy . . . It was the ..

... ACTIVITY OF BOMBERS• ARRAS TO DUNKIRK. ULSTERMAN'S STORY OF RETREAT. PACKED ROADS AND BOMBS. REFUGEES' TERRIBLE FATE. One of the first Ulstermen to reach Belfast after taking part in the epic struggle still in progress around Dunkirk' is 20-year-old Gunner Desmond ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 352 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

VALIANT VOLUNTEERS

... interfereooe by sea. In addition to almost it.omMKit bombntg and marbrne-giui attacks u;; Dunkirk. beaches and the vessels operating off them, the port of Dunkirk and the shipping plying to cum! fro were under frequent shell fire. This was to some extent ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 353 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FRENCH MAKE BRAVE SHOW

... fighting men. Large flags hung from the windows overlooking one station. CONTINUOUS STREAM The stream troops evacuated from Dunkirk had continued in full flow throughout the night. The work embarkation went on unceasingly, with the same heroic unconcern ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 578 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WILL BE SPOKEN WITH REVERENCE Long As English Tongue Survives

... WILL BE SPOKEN WITH REVERENCE Long As English Tongue Survives long as the English tongue survives the word Dunkirk will be spoken with reverence. A leading article in the New York Times, tribute to-day, adds: The rags and blemishes which have hidden ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 43 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TOOK OVER COMMAND

... TOOK OVER COMMAND DUNKIRK Distinguished Ulster Soldier A distinguished Ulster soldier, Major-General the Hon. H. R. Alexander, D. 5.0., M.C., brother the Earl of Caledon, was the less senior officer who took over command at Dunkirk when Lord Gort, British ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 218 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

died on active service

... died on active service Scott— Killed in action at Dunkirk .:h May, 1940, Robin N. C., Second K.A., aged 23 years, dearlykelnvcd son o£ Robert N. C. and the tc D. Scott, Eisleben House, Stranmillls, Belfast. ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 36 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CELTIC PARK

... i ECLIPSE S’STAKES CHAMPIONSHIP SPRINT Seven Races, Rassworf Stand 314, Ladles ll Popular Eno. Sd, “FANTASTIC ARMADA AT DUNKIRK ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 33 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FRENCH ADMIRALTY

... During tlie night of June 3-4 the last of the land and naval forces which, under the command Admiral Abrial, were defending Dunkirk permit the withdrawal of the Allied Armies of the north, were all embarked in good order after having rendered the port unusable ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 418 | Page: 1 | Tags: none